http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org News and updates relevant to media policy research. Add the RSS feed to your favorite news reader to have this news delivered directly to your browser. To submit news to us, send it to mediahub@ssrc.org. daily 1 2007-04-06T17:58:59Z http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news/knight-news-challenge Through the Knight News Challenge, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will award $5 million for innovative ideas that develop platforms, tools, and services to transform community news, conversations, and information distribution and visualization. Submit your application online through Nov 1, 2008. No publisher chung@ssrc.org 2008-08-18T16:19:01Z News Item http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news/call-to-participate-in-discussion-of-fcc-policy-on-net-neutrality The Deliberative E-Rulemaking Project (DeER) project is inviting members of the public to participate in an online forum on FCC network neutrality regulation, the results of which will be submitted as comments to the FCC. No publisher chung@ssrc.org 2008-08-13T19:04:42Z News Item http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news/five-new-positions-available-at-umass-amherst The Department of Communication at UMass Amherst invites applications for five tenure-track appointments at the Assistant Professor or Associate Professor level. Positions are available in International/Global and/or Intercultural Communication, Quantitative and Qualitative Communication Research Methodologies, Journalism, and Journalism Studies. Application review begins October 1, 2008. No publisher chung@ssrc.org employment 2008-07-31T17:38:04Z News Item http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news/barry-wellman-and-arvind-singhal-win-new-ssrc-ica-prizes July 6, 2008 - The Social Science Research Council is pleased to announce the winners of two new prizes in media and communications research, sponsored in partnership with the International Communications Association: No publisher chung@ssrc.org NKDPS Program 2008-07-10T14:28:07Z News Item http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news/whose-media-our-media-spin-toolkit-available-for-download Whose Media? Our Media! -- A toolkit to help media activists develop and successfully execute their own communications campaigns from the ground up. No publisher chung@ssrc.org research 2008-06-25T19:02:16Z News Item http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news/ssrc-abe-fellowship-for-journalists The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) announce the Abe Fellowship for Journalists (AFJ). The Fellowship is designed to encourage in-depth coverage of topics of pressing concern to the U.S. and Japan through individual short-term policy-related projects. Application Deadline: September 15, 2008. No publisher chung@ssrc.org employment 2008-07-10T15:12:05Z News Item http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news/ssrc-announces-large-grants-totaling-210-000-for-seven-new-media-communications-projects June 16th -- The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is pleased to announce seven new recipients of $30,000 Large Grants for academic-advocacy collaboration in media and communications. The funded projects address a range of exciting research needs, from advocacy strategies for Latinos to engage with media institutions, to action research developing a code of practices for Thai community radio, to initiatives that build collaborations between advocates and activists working to democratize the digital communications platform, etc. No publisher chung@ssrc.org NKDPS Program 2008-06-23T21:35:31Z News Item http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news/oxford-internet-institute-summer-interns-wanted OII is looking for Summer Interns to work on the Peach project (ethical, legal and social issues in virtual environments) and the Oxford eSocial Science (OeSS) project (social shaping of e-Research technologies and collaborative distributed science). No publisher karaganis@ssrc.org internship and volunteer opportunities 2008-04-14T21:37:04Z News Item http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news/open-society-fellowship The Open Society Fellowship enables outstanding individuals from around the world — journalists, activists, academics, practitioners — to work on projects that inspire meaningful public debate, shape policy, and inform the thinking and activities of the Open Society Institute and the Soros Foundations Network. No publisher minna.aslama@helsinki.fi internship and volunteer opportunities 2008-04-08T21:17:28Z News Item http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news/grantee-feature-media-mobilizing-project-in-the-nytimes Todd Wolfson and Media Mobilizing Project, recipients of a $30,000 SSRC Large Grant in October 2007, were recently featured in the New York Times Technology section and on the front cover of the Philadelphia CityPaper for their ongoing work with community journalists in Philadelphia, where residents are voicing issues of violence, gentrification, and the digital divide. No publisher chung@ssrc.org NKDPS Program 2008-04-09T17:56:23Z News Item http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news/nk-grantee-workshop-information-available-here The Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere co-hosted a two-day gathering (23-24 February 2008) of grantees, program partners, scholars and advocates to facilitate discussion on strategies to improve and increase research-advocacy collaborations on media and communications issues. Materials from the workshop can be found here. No publisher aslama@ssrc.org; chung@ssrc.org Conference NKDPS Program events 2008-08-19T18:57:11Z News Item http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news/broadband-access-data-mischief Highlighting the Benton Foundation's response to the just-released NTIA study declaring success for President Bush's universal broadband initiative. The study's reliance on FCC data that the FCC admits cannot provide an accurate picture of broadband adoption makes it worth flagging in the context our proposals to modernize and reform the FCC's data collection practices. No publisher karaganis@ssrc.org research 2008-02-08T21:22:16Z News Item http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news/ssrc-collaborative-grants-book-available Attention collaborative grant applicants and other interested parties: A compendium of SSRC 'Collaborative Grants in Media and Communications' awarded since 2006 is now available. No publisher karaganis@ssrc.org NKDPS Program 2008-04-17T17:06:01Z News Item http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news/call-for-papers-communication-culture-critique The International Communication Association seeks manuscripts for second and third 2008 issues of "Communication, Culture & Critique," the ICA's first new journal in 25 years. Submissions should be made online. No publisher chung@ssrc.org 2008-01-14T20:57:53Z News Item http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news/new-ssrc-idrc-book-ict-infrastructure-in-emerging-asia-policy-and-regulatory-roadblocks A new SSRC/IDRC-sponsored volume brings together scholars, practitioners, former regulators and policy makers to address the problem of expanding information and communication technology (ICT) connectivity in emerging Asia. No publisher karaganis@ssrc.org NKDPS Program 2008-01-14T17:32:11Z News Item